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Do we aware of the practice while practising?

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Everything is either
awareness
Or
An object of awareness.

Can you be aware that you are aware?
Yes.

Awareness can also be an object of awareness.
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“Self liberate even the antidote”as the Lojong slogans say...so yes, definitely.
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Yes, definitely! Here are the fundamental guidelines for any practice in Mahayana:

"Whenever you do something positive, whether of major or minor importance, it is indispensable to enhance it with the three supreme methods. Before beginning, arouse the bodhicitta as a skillful means to make sure that the action becomes a source of good for the future. While carrying out the action, avoid getting involved in any conceptualization, so that the merit cannot be destroyed by circumstances. At the end, seal the action properly by dedicating the merit, which will ensure that it continually grows ever greater."

- Patrul Rinpoche, "Words of My Perfect Teacher" (p. 8)
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I don’t still start practicing. Yet no experience of it.

I just don’t think practicing and to be aware of the practice could happen be at the same time, at least technically.

Cause, if mind is like a baggage; that each time we hold on or put in something, there would/could be no place to know.

So, my simple answer is no.
We couldn’t be aware and aware of the awareness at the same time..
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master of puppets wrote: Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:53 pm ...
Cause, if mind is like a baggage...
Maybe we are talking about different traditions and approaches, but it seems to me, this quoted idea might be the nucleus of misunderstanding.
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Ayu wrote: Tue Feb 02, 2021 1:37 pm
master of puppets wrote: Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:53 pm ...
Cause, if mind is like a baggage...
Maybe we are talking about different traditions and approaches, but it seems to me, this quoted idea might be the nucleus of misunderstanding.
Not say different traditions but different aproaches may be.
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I'm about to begin practicing. I know just one practice and it is 7/24 meditation practice. as a perfectionist it should be 7/24.

anyhow, before to begin ı notice that the practice will turn to a 5 sense practice.

My question is which sense (see, touch, hear, smell, taste) to chose to begin with?

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What's a 7/24 practice?
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If by 7/24 you mean you are always in some aspect of inward-turning attention, good luck with that!
You might want to start out a half hour at a time.

In the Surangama Sutra, there is a chapter where different accomplished Bodhisattvas discuss which of the senses they selected to bring them to the state of perfect realization. Each had their own preference, and They all seem to have worked, but hearing seems to be indicated as the “best” one.
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Hazel wrote: Fri Feb 05, 2021 12:38 am What's a 7/24 practice?
I mean not to be unaware of the practice even for a moment. Isn't this what is the teaching?

By the way, I have find the answer to my own question.

It should be "automatically" ..

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PadmaVonSamba wrote: Fri Feb 05, 2021 1:13 am You might want to start out a half hour at a time.
Or even shorter.... I am a fan of recommending sits as short as 5 or 10 minutes to beginners. You can lengthen as it becomes more comfortable and natural to sit longer. Better to sit regularly for short sits than it is to force yourself to sit for an hour on random days and then give up

Mindfulness throughout the day is never a bad thing. Expecting no difference between on cushion and off cushion 24/7 is unrealistic though. Training is needed

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Everything begin with the first step. Now I'm ready for it.

It took me so long to understand this.
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By the long time of interest of zen and buddhism, 20 years, I have developed an inner sense to emptiness.

Since it is the emptiness term that which is frequently and often emphasized,

my question is it right to look everything from an emptiness view or window?

to be more clear we are living in a world that full of many different events or people in their own characteristic.
yet many actions, speech or events that has been done has nothing to do with emptiness.they mostly seen unnecessary and nonessential in this way of looking.

so back to the question is it ok to examine eveything from the perspective of emptiness? even the most ordinary things?

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master of puppets wrote: Mon Feb 01, 2021 8:28 pm Do we aware of the practice while practising?

anyone

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If we can do that not being aware while remaining clear (not mistaken)?
It’s eye blinking.
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PadmaVonSamba wrote: Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:53 am Everything is either
awareness
Or
An object of awareness.

Can you be aware that you are aware?
Yes.

Awareness can also be an object of awareness.
No. Can you not be aware while remaining clear?
It’s eye blinking.
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LastLegend wrote: Sat Feb 06, 2021 11:25 pm
PadmaVonSamba wrote: Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:53 am Everything is either
awareness
Or
An object of awareness.

Can you be aware that you are aware?
Yes.

Awareness can also be an object of awareness.
No. Can you not be aware while remaining clear?
How would you know?
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PadmaVonSamba wrote: Sat Feb 06, 2021 11:26 pm
LastLegend wrote: Sat Feb 06, 2021 11:25 pm
PadmaVonSamba wrote: Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:53 am Everything is either
awareness
Or
An object of awareness.

Can you be aware that you are aware?
Yes.

Awareness can also be an object of awareness.
No. Can you not be aware while remaining clear?
How would you know?
Are you sure ?
It’s eye blinking.
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Okay do you have to be aware before blinking eyes? Or scratching yourself when it’s itch?
It’s eye blinking.
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Yes, sorry to say 😂...we’ve been getting it not so right.
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